To study personality scientifically, we must first be able to measure it. How do psychologists deal with this issue? As we'll soon see, in several different ways. 1. Self-Report Tests of Personality: Questionnaires and Inventories: One way of measuring personality involves asking individuals to respond to a self-report inventory or questionnaire. Such measures (sometimes known as objective tests of personality) [...]
After reading this article you will learn about the process of formation of psycho-social identity. In the early years, the child has very little interaction with the society and identity formation is essentially personal, very much anchored on one's idea or image of oneself. The foundations for these are laid by a process of acquisition of a stable 'body image' [...]
After reading this article you will learn about Erik Erikson’s Neo-Freudian theory of personality. Since Freud's death, Erikson—more than any other person —has performed the function of continuing Freud's idea of personality and its development. Erikson considers himself a Freudian psychoanalyst. But he is more popularly known as a neo-Freudian after Carl Jung and Alfred Adler. Erikson, in formulating his [...]
